Alex DeBrie is the founder of DeBrie, LLC, a cloud-native training and AWS consulting company with a focus on DynamoDB and serverless technologies. He’s also the author of The DynamoDB Book, a 450-page tome that offers tips, strategies, and more about data modeling in DynamoDB. Prior to starting his own company, Alex was an engineer at Serverless Inc. and Hudl. Before that, he worked as an associate attorney for a law firm in Nebraska after earning his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Join Corey and Alex as they discuss what got Alex so interested in DynamoDB in the first place, why Alex isn’t worried about AWS pricing, why you should view your cloud provider as a partner instead of an enemy, the many hats Alex wore at Serverless, Inc., why Dynamo is the database of choice for serverless applications, why auto-scaling doesn’t work quite as well with DynamoDB as it does for EC2, the most egregious uses of DynamoDB Alex has encountered to date, how Alex made the leap from law school to engineering and tech, the time Alex was the number two Django contributor on Stack Overflow over a six-month period even though he’d never done any real production, and more.